The pre-assessment I chose to give for this unit consists of forty questions of various types that mainly deal with vocabulary and key ideas surrounding the Progressive Era. The first eight questions require student to match historical figures to their impact or historical importance. The next seventeen questions are multiple choice and test students’ ability group individuals and ideas, recall key legislation and reforms desired by progressives, and so on. There are six true/false questions which check for comprehension even further. Finally, I have the student analyze a map, a chart, and a short primary source document through a series of multiple choice questions. This last section was taken from previous EOI tests with the hopes of …show more content…
While this question does deal more with vocabulary, making it more understandable that so few students answered it correctly; I decided to work in activities that would continue building our source analysis skills nevertheless. One way I did this was during our lesson covering the Plessy v. Ferguson court case. I had students read both a primary and a secondary source and then answer questions that tested not only their knowledge and comprehension skills with respect to the sources, but also their evaluation and application skills as well. In general, this pre-assessment allowed me to better understand where my classes stood with regards to the subject matter at hand. The knowledge I gleaned from this activity resulted in a more tailored and focused learning experience for my students which met them where they were instead of assuming what they did or didn’t know. My lessons were more appropriate for the learning environment as a result of giving a pre-test and at the end of the unit both the students and I will be able to have tangible proof that our time was not wasted. Learning occurred and this pre-assessment allows us to prove
Who Were the Progressives? Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2002. Hofstadter, Richard. Great Issues in American History Volume III. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
It is the year 1911. One hundred and thirty five years have passed since the creation of our country by our brave founding fathers. Our beautiful nation is constantly changing. As a progressive, I want it to change for the better and bring an improved standard of living for my fellow countrymen. The three areas that are the most in need of reform are working conditions, our educational system, and public services.
A mass body of people pointed out what they liked and disliked. Throughout history, one can clearly see change is made through citizen’s inputs that eventually makes an impact on the quality of life. During the Progressive Era, America was portrayed as the “best country” in the world. However, no one bothered to bring up the fact that one out of three people were starving to death or only six out of ten children were attending school due to financial instability in American households. The government was well aware of the poverty issues but they did not make an effort to help the people.
The Progressive Era could not have made such an impact in the U.S without the political, social and economic
FOCUS STUDENT 1 a) Focus Student 1 completed the assessment well, he achieved some of the use of academic language throughout his graphic organizer. Focus Student 1 was able to successfully compare and contrast the arguments/rational of Hoovers response to the Great Depression to Roosevelts response. For example, Focus Student 1 was able to show me that Hoover believed that the government should not get involved with helping its citizens, where FDR thought the government should get involved. As well, he was able to provide me with an acceptable summary. However, I would have like to have seen more details in his summary.
Additionally, the tasks need to be constructive and interlinked and provide a challenge to the students while also acting as a motivation factor. The adopting of effective teaching to match the personal strengths of the students ensures that a student’s learning outcome is achieved Holistic assessment should be encouraged to understand what the learner has captured on a learning
Smarter Balanced Assessment: Pro or Con? Smarter Balanced Assessment, who is it truly assessing, the teachers or the students? Smarter Balanced testing contributes to the teacher’s performance, but is it beneficial or does it have unintended consequences? Students are ultimately grading the teachers by taking these tests and they are not even aware of it. The disadvantages may outweigh the benefits for this topic, but teachers must look past the disadvantages and do what they were meant to do, teach.
Students will be enriched when assessing the information attained from these
I incorporate this learned experience daily and learn through each success and discovered area of improvement. Addressing my students needs using a variety of assessment tools has been a beneficial practice to help guide instruction. Students have different learning styles and their strengths and weaknesses are not always apparent using the same methods of assessment. Utilizing formative, standards(goal)-based, anecdotal, observational and benchmarks has driven my instructional programs. The combination of different assessments provides me with a multi-dynamic perspective of my students allowing me to better understand their strengths, weakness and academic needs.
Mr. Conners clearly knows his strengths and weaknesses which s why he uses this form of questioning. It is a definite strength that Mr. Conners possesses that is able to eliminate possible weaknesses by not allotting time for those weaknesses to surface because of the constant questioning. The student participation was amazing. Not a single student answered a question consecutively. There were multiple students constantly engaged in classroom discussion at one time.
I feel that overall the majority of this lesson was successful. Students had a clear understanding of the learning target and what was previously taught in this unit since they were able to participate and answer my questions. 2. Did students accomplish the goals you had planned for this class?
In order to make their learning and assessment ongoing and not episodic, I develop an appropriate curriculum, planning lessons to meet students' learning needs and using inferences about student progress to inform my teaching. I make lessons and assessments a linked series of activities undertaken over time, so that progress is directed towards the intended course goals and the achievement of relevant
When discussing assessments most people envision a pen and paper evaluation that measures the acquired knowledge on any given subject. While this is partly true it’s important as educators that we understand that there are many different ways that a student’s knowledge can be assessed. One ideal way is to provide the students with an authentic assessment. Authentic assessments demonstrate what a student actually learns in class rather than their ability to do well on traditional tests. Which makes this type of assessment an excellent way of evaluating a student’s knowledge of a subject matter.
I participated in several school meetings. After working with students in small groups, I evaluated my mini lesson for student improvement. My students were able to work independently, collaboratively, and utilize feedback from other peers. This taught me to reflect on advantages and disadvantaged of the lessons
It is my goal to make sure students are not just memorizing facts, but are actually understanding. They should be able to take the lesson and apply it to other areas of their lives. I believe students need to be assessed frequently and routinely. The students need accurate and effective feedback, so they can make any necessary adjustments.